National Biography Award Shortlist announced
In further book award news this week, the shortlist for the State Library of NSW National Biography Award has been announced.
The award, which is supported by the Nelson Meers Foundation, celebrates excellence in biography, autobiography and memoir writing. It is the richest prize for Australian biographical writing, with a prize pool of $42,
The award, established by Dr Geoffrey Cains, has been running for 24 years. It was supported by the late Michael Crouch AC to encourage the highest standard of biographical writing and promote public interest in the genre.
In , the Nelson Meers Foundation took over the funding of the award, and increased the value of prize money for each shortlisted author to $
The winner, announced on August 28, will receive $25,
The shortlist is competitive, with The Girls by Chloe Higgins having already won the People’s Choice Award for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards this year
See the full shortlist below!
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Adelaide author Philip Butterss has won the prestigious National Biography Award for what judges have described as a long overdue book about Australian poet CJ Dennis. An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of CJ Dennis was published last year by Wakefield Press and announced as the winner of the $25, prize at an event at the State Library of NSW yesterday. Adelaide University lecturer Butterss’s book reveals the personal and literary struggles and successes of Dennis, from his childhood in South Australia to a successful writing career during which he penned more than poems. It also traces his struggles with depression and alcoholism. Dennis is best known for his classic The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke, pocket copies of which were sent to Australian soldiers during World War I, and its sequel, The Moods of Ginger Mick. He also worked as a journalist and editor, and expressed strong political views through his writing. Writer CJ Dennis at work. The National Biography Prize judges said An Unsentimental Bloke was meticulously researched but also very readable. They described it as a “forensic work of recovery” about a wri
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